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Murder of Youth

Bhashantek culprits still at large

Staff Correspondent
Police are yet to arrest anyone even two days after a man was killed allegedly by a local gang at Bhashantek in the capital for protesting the stalking of his cousin.
The killers were roaming freely in the area but police were not arresting them, one of the eyewitnesses of the incident told this correspondent yesterday. He did not wish to be named fearing retribution.
Nasir Hossain, 25, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College
Bhashantek
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Hospital in the wee hours of Saturday after Mamun, 27, along with his gang members reportedly beat up and indiscriminately stabbed him.
Mamun is also the prime accused in a case for barbaric torture on a pregnant woman and 10 others of her family in Bhashantek slum area in February.
Mamun along with four of his cohorts -- Bablu, “Kana” Alam, Khokon and Chukka - verbally abused Laboni, 15, in Bhashantek on Friday afternoon, Nasir's brother Mosharraf said in the statement of the case he filed with Bhashantek Police Station on Saturday. Seven named, including Mamun, and four to five unnamed people were accused in the case.
"These criminals are moving freely. They do not have any permanent address. They disappear after committing crimes every time," said SubInspector Anisur Rahman of Bhashantek Police Station, also the investigation officer of the case.
“We are trying to arrest them," he said, adding that some of the gang members were arrested following the February incident but were released on bail later.
Mamun's wife Nasima Akhter said, "My husband was in Gazipur after the February incident. He returned home [in Bhashantek slum] a week before the Eid [Eid-ul-Azha| and was here till Saturday evening."
"My husband is a drug addict. If he indeed is such a notorious criminal then why police are not arresting him?” she said.
Their neighbours alleged Mamun recently committed several crimes in the area in collusion with police.
Though many slum-dwellers wit-
culprits
nessed the incident, none of them was ready to say anything on record fearing backlashes from the gang members who, according to locals, have established a reign of terror in the area.
"Everyone wants to keep mum as they are afraid of the gang," said Nasir's paternal cousin Abdul Aziz, who saw the criminals taking away the victim on Friday night.
Laboni's mother Hena Akhter too was scared of talking about the goons.
"I don't want to talk about this incident anymore. I have two more daughters," she said, underscoring her fears of further harassment by Mamun's gang.
The victims of the horrific February incident too feel unsafe.
Four female victims told this correspondent that they were still living in fear as they had received death threats several times after a case against the gang was filed.
The gang members even went to their houses and threatened to kill them if they did not withdraw the case, one of them alleged.
Mamun and his gang allegedly forced nine members, including six women, of the poor family in Bhashantek slum in a room, undressed them all and assaulted them for about 15 hours since the morning of February 11. Two other male members of the family were beaten up outside the room.
It all happened for six tolas of gold that too was alleged to have been stolen by a member of the family.
The culprits even took photos and videos of the victims and threatened to circulate those if the gold ornaments were not given to them, despite their insistence that they did not know anything about the gold.